Improvement in clothes-wringers



R. VOSE 8L J. W. EVANS.

improvement in'Clothes-Wringers. N, 132,782. y Patented Nov. 5,1872.

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RICHARD VOSE AND JAMES W. EYANS, OF N EW- YORK, N. Y.

lMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-WRINGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,782,6lated November 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, RICHARD VOSE and JAMES W. EVANS, jointly, bot-h of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Glothes-Wringers, of which the following is a speciticationi Our invention relates to the combination, with the rollers in a clothes-wringing machine, of two toggle-joint levers, one acting at each end of the rolls, whereby, by the movement of a single screw, pressure is applied to both ends of the rolls simultaneously.

Figure lis a vertical central section of a clothes-wringing machine embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the saine. A

A is the frame of the machine, which may be made either of iron or wood. B and B are India-rubber rollers, mounted on suitable iron axles, of the ordinary construction, revolving in suitable bearings in the frame. c c c c are bars which, with the center pivotblocks Dand D', constitute two toggle-joint levers, placed in recesses in the sides of the frame A, the ripper ends abutting against bearings a a in the top of the frame, and the lower ends against blocks b b placed upon or within recesses in bearings c c that rest upon the journal of the upper roller B. d and d' are pieces of India rubber placed between the blocks b b and the bearings c c', which it is desirable to usein order to render the upper roller somewhat yielding. E is an iron rod, the ends passing through holes in the pivot-blocks D and D', one end having a shoulder, c, resting aga-inst the inner surface of the block D, and secured in the block by a nut on the opposite side, permitting1 the rod to revolve in the block, but not to move endwise. Upon the opposite end a screw is out that works in a corresponding screw-thread in the block D. F is a handle to be grasped by the hand in revolving the rod.

By revolving` the rod E so as to run the screw into the block D the blocksare drawn together and the levers shortened, and by revolving the rod in the opposite direction the levers are lengthened, and pressure is applied to the roller B.

Asis evident, this combination of devices furnishes a very convenient means of readily setting down, with any required degree of pressure,the upper roller upon the lower, both ends being forced down simultaneously.

That we claim as new is- The combination, in a clothes-wringin g machine, oi the toggle-joint levers described, and the rod E with the roller B, substantially as and for purpose described.

RlOHD. VOSE. JAMES- W. EVANS.

Witnesses R. R. Woon, W. A. SHELDON. 

